Mother's Taxi - Sport and Women's Labor

A detailed look at how domestic labor and childcare done by women provides the space for others to participate in sport, contributing directly to individual sporting careers and generally servicing sport as an institution.
Mother's Taxi is a detailed study of how women facilitate and service the sport played by others, particularly their immediate family members. It illustrates how domestic labor and childcare done by women provides the space for others to participate in sport, contributing directly to individual sporting careers and generally servicing sport as an institution. It offers important considerations for studies of sport, leisure, and gender relations by highlighting an aspect of women's relationships to sport which has been largely ignored.

About the author

Shona M. Thompson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Exercise Science at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Product details

• Authors: Shona M Thompson, Shona M. Thompson
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.1999
• EAN: 9780791440599
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4059-9
• No. of pages: 317
• Weight: 599 g
• Series: Suny Series on Sport, Culture,; Suny Series on Sport, Culture,; Suny Sport, Culture, and Socia
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories